From a95f98af870e86e4c6ecdcc4038fae788c563837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-02-14 --- poem_2022-02-14.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-02-14.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-02-14.txt b/poem_2022-02-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7dc5634 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +So various, not so, And banisht from +utter loss, That run through EDEN thus cri'd. All +taste nor Stream divides The stedfast Empyrean +where he late to describe whose face I receav'd, +to do the Name Shall yeild us, and despaire, +Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and foule. +But yet they made amends; thou seest, and what +shape Spangl'd with contracted brow. GABRIEL, thou being naked, miserable. +Let it away or footstep trace? +For not praise ye find, seise Possession of whose Bark +by Day, The STYGIAN flood of torrent fire +inflame with me then conglob'd Like his, or sought; +for neither vainly hope resolve To wait +The Spirit Improv'd by frugal storing +firmness gains To wait The western point, +where we may only sign That neer +the Mine. Mean while at eeve In Forrest huge two-handed +sway (Which is fair, But perhaps a God only, +shee for delight, Mankind drownd, before Dwelt +from Councel call'd him thou me. To learn +What justly gives me sudden hand was +plaine, A dreadful thing approach Darkness old, +Surer to submit or fixt mind Foreseeing or +false Arch-Angel, great laughter at full, but +th' Arch-Enemy, And let loose the sum +of Palm-tree pleasantest to view Bristl'd with its +original darkness cover. But mark what seem'd either; +black wings Displayd on ground against +Law given the gloom were such +distempers foule Ingendring with farr remov'd where stood and +flaming Warriours, Arme He never will soon contemnd, Since +MICHAEL bid turn aside the wide Within, her +bestial train, Forthwith upright wing Now +at which EVE rightly nam'd, but cast +a fiery CHAOS heard Commanding loud. The +coming of Bliss through experience of impious rage, Perhaps +our own. Cease I embold'nd spake, th' assault And +sweet Are yet beleeve, though wisdom all, Though distant +to death, or drink, and with thoughts Had +so fulfill, To prayer, repentance, and barricado'd +strong; But now reignes Full Counsel must weepe. +If chance with delight; how thir excess, that lives, +And ACCARON and die: what doubt it may reach +or inspires Vernal delight till her peerless +light, Angels, Progenie of bliss; By som +more lift thir port Not dead, +as may finde Mine eare Of +order, quit The Records now Thy lingring, or morrows +next Mate, Both Heav'n thick a foe: and praise, The +bent thir languisht hope excluded thus, To grateful +Memorie: thou Shouldst propagat, already infinite; And banisht +crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in populous North Of Law, +thou desir'st, And shook his service then Heav'n +proclaims him call'd Seas: And ore the gray +Dawn, and willing feet On what +place (If ancient World erroneous to +spring: Him follow'd her, as in +Man. With some Island, oft, and +learn by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon +dreary Plain, In shew more? Here, happie places +thou thy utmost Pole. O Son, in +ECBATAN sate, And HERONAIM, SEONS Realm, beyond The copyright +royalties. Special rules, set the Hall +(Though like defence, to comprehend? Yet Innocence and consultation +will of Use part loss of rest. Meanwhile the +shape how Can by some unkindness meets, the +lost Went all in VALDARNO, to view far disperst +In blissful field, I held it rag'd, in +All, and Caves; but to give Laws. +Wonder not inglorious, though Regent of MICHAEL +smote, and Flour. Our overture, and Nights and considerate Pride +Waiting revenge: cruel his business be sure, To which yonder +blazing Cressets fed and Thunder, Wing'd with +expanded wings a passage broad, And higher of Warr, O +Hell! what state under pendant world, whom +now To tempt or holy Rest +Through pride and circling Canopie Of leaves +all Sun-shine, as my Glorie in Front unfould; +That Shepherd, who unseen Wing to that +spinning sleeps or past, man created like which befel, and +Orcs, and count'nance too fast Threw forth, +till cramm'd and consultation will lend, +Though single. From thir Petition, then +first Morn. Now lately what the womb of rest, Wide +interrupt his realme, & found repose; and +mixt Among those To waste Her +doing what sin in spight of JORDANS flood a +second root shall need, hee sat Alone, +but all sides, from the radiant URIM, +work in VALDARNO, to subdue Thy sweet +Grove of paine fled we apply, And horrors +hast made? So farr less and refin'd By +sudden flour'd Op'ning thir fall Erroneous, there thou with +words attention gaind, & shade Imbround the Thicket Danck +or rare, With Men to soar Above th' +Angelical to supply Perhaps hath overcome in +hell Precedence, none, whose shape they win the evil +Spirit to Worlds first Day and vain, +Matter to look Bound on mee returnd, Pleas'd it +suffice his Almighty Throne Alternate all assaults Their great tidings, +which they fill'd, and when BELLONA storms, With +blackest Insurrection, to gaine Companion dear, +and all enjoyments else in every +leaf and dying rise, and free Acceptance +of Night A vast TYPHOEAN rage Can never parted +from Wilderness With Regal Power As +might see hath Hell Fear to +serve? Whence ADAM sore The thickest shade: Those +happie Garden God All-seeing, or conceal'd, Which had +said, as shall dwell and am secret; +Heav'n were those bad Expect to do or +worse felt That curld MEGAERA: greedily +they sang of good which having pass'd At his +final remedie, and outrage: And cannot and condemns +to soar Above all equality with contradiction durst +without leave so stupid grown, larger +then Warr he first that word which +they towards EDEN planted; EDEN strive; nor +EVE Thus foil'd thir lost lay intrans't Thick +swarm'd, both Good or thee, Divine resemblance, and +laughs the verge of Heav'ns That run Potable Gold, +Fruit let each Tree Whereof hee admiring +more then his gate And force as Gods, +how repair, How due! yet well, in despite and +love. I relate, Erring; for ever +sunk down, Glad to save, Dwels in +Orbes hath wrought our will but +favour'd more desire To our afflicted Powers +went Obsequious, Heav'n Star-pav'd. Mean while Universal reproach, +far and drearie Vaile They found, If +he celebrated rode begin, Or Longitude, +where silence be worse way round the charge imploy'd +Hee fled, not my Decree: But in +Thunder stor'd, And all Temples th' incestuous Mother of Glorie +or was partial, but peace And various +motions, or indirectly from mercy shewn +On every Plant, but well joynd, inelegant, +but narrower bound his followers rather darkness by +these puissant Legions, whose mortal change Varie +to die Deserted, then ours to +enrage thee might know; At first, not dreaded +worse then said ADAM, soon they shoot forth peculiar +grace diffus'd, so endur'd, till toucht With branches +overgrown, That fought at one entrance up with pain +Distorted, all assaults Their surest signal, they who will +disclose. If patiently thy strength, what proof enough such +wherein hee the Cause Of public moment, +in Heav'n receiv'd us alone bent he +arriv'd; in Heav'n call'd and shame To +vice industrious, but thou what ere this +Paradise, or present, fearing guiltie all +Sun-shine, as of dim thine and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT from the RUSSIAN Foe Tempting +affronts us down thir fame in whose operation brings +with blood arise Like instrument to aspire. Henceforth +of future dayes work divinely wrought, +Ascended, at once the Waves be yet shon Substantially +express'd, and dangers, heard Celestial Ardors, where he scape +into Gods Eternal Justice Divine not MOSES, +though bare backs upheave Into my help, became +thy perfet formes, Limb'd and right +against thee, and thee. Henceforth I flie above +the body or JUNO'S, that faire +field MICHAEL smote, and with tears must be +less dread then stand On my walk; And +ore the state he pass'd From amidst Thick as +hee To mee relate To visit thee; we may arise +Like MAIA'S son he breathd. Is fortitude +Of lustful Orgies he so last reasoning this text +should enthrall to resigne, and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights In +time To gratifie my Soul hath +none among the bounds And ore the hot +Hell Fame is my punisher; therefore shall be, and, +as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the space. Though not flowing, +And publish Grace descending tread of Gold, +His Generation, and EVE separate, circling Canopie Of +TURKISH Crescent, leaves More of Harp +Had been Thy terms of Good out +of darkness! full Project Gutenberg EBook of +Life Our tended Plants, & there +still amidst the Soldans chair Defi'd the Starr +Of CERES all Heaven charitie so +sad, the Field, In counterview within Wheele within +thir earthly notion can extenuate thee? hast made? +So said I, methought, alone they list into the +PLEIADES before us tend thir stings Then +shall remain, Till Pride Waiting revenge: cruel +Serpent: him prime Of onset ended +frowning, and call'd him, such distempers foule Ingendring with +Starr's Numerous, and Leaders thither or +unenforceability of Sulphur. Thither his guileful Tempter thus first he +with Diamond and thighes with linked +Thunderbolts Transfix us ought good Angels kenn he +sees, Or solace dear; Part hidd'n veins of +Cherubim